Richardson and bennett (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original wrpapers with edgewear and minor darkening at the edges.

xii,180 pp. Quarto (28 X 22.5 cm.) Bound in an attractive modern, full dark blue straight grain morocco. Gilt decoration on spine and gilt decoration on boards. All edges speckled red. Marble endpapers to match. Modern bookplate on the front pastedown. Half title. 50 hand-colored engraved plates by Sowerby on the title page, but there are actually only 44 plates, 3 engraved geological plans with hand-colored details, and 1 folding hand-colored engraved plate of geological sections. One extra uncoloured plate not called for after Plate 44. Overall a very attractive and fresh copy with very bright colouring. A very rare item. An IMPORTANT WORK NOTED for ITS STRIKING COLORED PLATES of BIRDS, REPTILES, MAMMALS, and MARINE LIFE. The collections and notes were done during the four-year voyage of the Blossom, a voyage to assist the expeditions of W.E. Parry and John Franklin. The notes are by John Richardson (mammalia), Nicholas A. Vigors (birds), George T. Lay and Edward T. Bennett (fishes), Richard Owen (crustacea), William Buckland (geology), and John Edward Gray (reptiles and shells). As Beechey explains in the introduction, the appearance of this work was long frustrated and it was only after a full eight years that it saw publication. In no uncertain terms, he states "that it [the delay] has been occasioned entirely by Mr. Gray's failing to furnish his part in spite of every intercession from myself and others." As also noted by Beechey, although the nature of the Blossom's mission prevented long stays in any one locality, the crew did collect an astounding number of rare and exotic species from a good variety of locations. Hill 96; Sabin 71032. Lada Mocarski 105.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Bendann Brothers. First Edition. 562 pages + separately engraved title page noting illustrations are by Bendann Brothers. 4to. 3/4 leather over pebbled cloth covered boards. Illustrated with sixty two tissue protected photographic unsigned portraits of luminaries, fifty-one from life (the balance copyprints after paintings or engravings). The photographs are in excellent condition, strong and rich. Gilt ruling and decoration on raised bands on spine. Overall minor wear to extremities. Where leather rubbed toned to match. Page edges tinted red. One front endpaper with inked previous owner names and past purchase date. Small chip missing from front marbled endpaper, occasional corners turned from past readers with bad habits. Seven pages noted with a few words underlined. No doubt the publisher's trade edition (the deluxe edition which we've also owned had facsimile signatures underneath each portrait, and a deluxe binding). Cloth. The first 146 pages are a historical sketch of the area by Brantz Mayer titled "Baltimore As it Was and As it Is: A Historical Sketch of the Ancient Town and Modern City, from the foundation, in 1729, to 1870; Compiled and written from Authentic Materials.". The second section is titled "Biographical" and provides biographical sketches and in many cases photographs from life of those worthy of inclusion. John W. Woods printer. Bendann Brothers (illustratore).…